Tiger Lilly Love

A lovely pot of Impatients at my back door.

Jayne Austin - looking beautiful today in my back garden.

Tiger Lilly Love

 

A special white dwarf Aggapanthus that I bought at Lambley last year ....  it's first flowering.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles in the morning sun.

. . . and a finale for the holidays . . .
 I took the children to the Adventure Park in Geelong for the day.

~Lots of Pirate "stuff" there~

Our Pussy Cats have been having lots of success with Mice lately - even a baby bunny from the paddocks which we rescued!

It was fun watching them play,
but unfortunatly my camera batteries died at the crucial moment.

 

 

 

Kimono

My Quilting Friend Maria
is having a Solo Exhibition of her Quilts

Opening on Wednesday 30th Jan. in Ballarat.
Maria also has a blog called www.apiecefullife.blogspot.com
She is hoping to have a blog meet and meet the artist on the Wed ~ if anone is close by to Ballarat and would like to join us for Coffee, that would be great.

This is what I've been up to . . . my neighbour over the road bought a new dress for an outing this Saturday.  She thought a little bag might be nice.
It is the Wristlet Pattern from Nichole Mallaleau - I've learnt all my best bag making skills from Nikki.

I even used a bit more from my Winter Boot, for the "dingle" at the front!

She was thrilled with the result, and so was I.

. . . and then there were 2.  Some mothers can only manage 2 babies, so these 2 beauties are nearly a week old now, and when I checked tonight, were just just just starting to get some yellow feathers.  They survived the VERY HOT DAY yesterday, so I think they are going to be OK.

 

Three New Babies

3 new babies this weekend, and yesterday morning, I even saw one of them coming out of the egg.  They are SO tiny!

Mum is never far away, but she lets us look and admire them which is nice.  I tell her how clever she is.

 

We've had a couple of cooler days, so I've been working hard in the garden, putting down some top soil and some mulch.  My body is hurting!

This is what is left of my old wobbly seat out the back where I used to sit and admire my good work.  I was sad to see it go, but then had a brain wave. . .

I had more chairs in the shed, and I made this little table out of old junk lying around. Now a perfect, and comfortable place to sit and think.

 

 

 

~Gardening is a very satisfying hobby~

Summer Days and Hot hot hot days

We are having some very HOT weather this summer, and it is testing the garden . . . and the gardener.  I have been doing a LOT of watering, which is not usually so necessary where I live, as we usually have some rain here and there to tide us over.

This beautiful hydrangea must be in just the right spot, as it hasn't "drooped" at all, like some of my others. It is a very pretty one.

I have been experimenting with scraps, but am not quite happy with what I am achieving.  Could be my work space which I'll show you further in the post!

Just wondering if anyone else has a problem with "baskets" - I can't resist them.

Here is my work space - maybe I should tidy it up and I would have more room to work, and think and plan - that seems such a tedious task though - I'd rather be sewing.  MUM, I need your help!

Now this mother bird is having a final sit for the season.  I think it is too hot.  She has 5 eggs under there, and they were due to hatch yesterday.  There was nothing tonight, so I will keep a close watch tomorrow.  I have boiled some chicken eggs for them to feed to the babies, if they hatch.

This is one of the little babies from Christmas time.  They looked like little dinosaurs, and now all fluffy and cute.  They grow so quickly.  There's been 10 babies hatch and survive.  I've had a couple of fatalities - they don't all survive.

Another Christmas Baby!

Hardy Aggies - oldies, but goodies . . .

. . . and this was one of my "pot luck" roses I bought in the winter for $5.  I am thrilled with the flower. I think a Double Delight.

Vegi Garden make over tomorrow - expected temperature much lower

. . . a familiar sight at my back door - my Christmas Gloves have already worn a hole ~

. . . another Christmas Baby

Summer Knitting

My mum is the official "Queen of Machine Knitting"
I am very new to this hobby, but already I have my second machine.

At Christmas time I had lots and lots of lessons on how to drive this fancy machine.  It does all sorts of patterns and stitches, so I have lots of learning ahead.

Mum said I had to jump straight in and make a garment, so . . .

a waistcoat it was to be.  Lots of giggles, and late nights later, we came mighty close to finishing.

I still have to sew in a couple of loose ends.
I will post the finished garment sooooooon

Thanks to Marlene (the Queen's Accomplice) - for helping secure the new machine, and sharing so generously, some of her stash.